Improvement in cotton-thinning machine



, dotted ltalesV anni com.

n. Mfennnson', or AMERIGU'S, GEORGIA.`

Leners raam N 101,962, mail April 12, '1870.

Magg- IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-THINNING- MACHINE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters 'atsnt `and making part of the vlame To all `whom it mayA concern.- Be it known that I, E. M. Gunnison, of Americas,

inthe county of Sumter and State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Improvement iu Cottonlhiuning Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andA exact description thereof, which will enable those 'skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification.

, ',lhe object of this invention is to provide a simple and eicient machine for thinning or.chop3iing'out the cotton along the rows at- Suitahle intervals, as is ihe practice when the'plants aresrnallfto makerooin .ihr the larger growth.

The invention .comprises au arrangement of a'nnmber ot' hoes or Scrapers, at suit-able intervals in' a mw,

suspended from a. beam or frame provided with guiding-handles, and connected at right angles to anotherirarne, mounted adjustably on one wheel, to the front of which latter frame the animal is to The Inte-nce [or drawing the same across the rows of plants, all as hereinafter more fully specified.

Figure l represents a longitudinal section of my im- D, having a central space, projects and is mounted on a. single wheel, E, working in the said space, the axle ot' which is adjustable along the said frame D.

F represents handles connected to the frame D, and to posts G ot' the frame' A B. They project rearward, to be used by the attendant walking behind in guiding this machine, which is used Vto choi out or thin t-hc cotton in -the rows, by being drawnacross the said rows.

lheohjcctof adjusting the wheel along the-flame D is to so arrange it relatively to the plows, in respect ofthe distance from them, that the machine may be adapted for rows of any distance apart, the require-v meut being that, when the wheels are `going down the descent of the row across which they have just passed,

the hoes will act upon the said row, cutting out the cotton, and when the wheels pass beyond the bottom of the descent, the cutters will pass beyond the row' and be kept ont of contact with the earth nntlthewheels areiu the descent of the next row.

This makes the work light, and gives a chance for the cutters or hoes to be cleaned oi' all earth, weeds, cotton-plants, &c.

Having thus described inyinvcntion, y

That I claim as new, and` desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'- The arrangement of the frames A B and D, adjustable whecl E, and the cutters C, all substantially as specified.

M. GREESOX.

Witnesses: v

NATHL. G. BURKE, l. HENRY BURKE. 

